Hans Rosling’s Ted Talk about the Washing Machine revolution and what it means to environmentalists:
Archive for March, 2011
Mar30th2011
“Not only is Smith not endorsing a progressive income tax, he isn’t endorsing any sort of income tax. Reading further into the passage, he successively rejects taxes on income from capital, taxes on wages, and taxes on the income of professionals. The only income he approves of taxing is the income […]
Mar24th2011
“The point is that there’s something a bit head in the sand about proclaiming this a simple “humanitarian” undertaking. Showing up with bags of rice in a famine zone is a humanitarian undertaking. Sending in some Marines to help guard the trucks full of bags of rice is a plausible military […]
Mar21st2011
If You Were Bill Gates, How Would You Solve Poverty?
Published by in Capitalism, Economics and General. 0 CommentsIf you were Bill Gates and had ten billion dollars to spend to solve poverty, what would you do? David Henderson, an economist at the Naval Postgraduate School, posed precisely that question to various economists at his school and those of us that read his blog. This is what I wrote:
I’ve actually been thinking about […]
Mar18th2011
I have a trip planned for Chicago in mid July. Any bloggers live in that area that would like to meet up? Send me an email.
Mar18th2011
“Japanese people may well be more honest than most. But the Japanese legal structure rewards honesty more than most. In a 2003 study on Japan’s famous policy for recovering lost property, West argues that the high rates of recovery have less to do with altruism than with the system of carrots and […]
Mar17th2011
If you want to know why China is growing faster than India, it’s partly because of India’s labor laws like this:
As soon as a company hires more than 100 employees, it is impossible to fire anyone without government permission. Such laws have long deterred foreign investors, hampered manufacturing, and prevented the nation of […]
Mar15th2011
“Emily Lambert’s The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets should help convince you that financial innovation isn’t all useless. A producer of eggs, or oil, or wheat, or corn is, after all, sort of accidentally stuck in two different businesses. On the one hand, […]
Mar14th2011
“The important thing about public services is the provision of services, not the provision of jobs. The right question to ask about firefighters’ pensions isn’t a moralizing one, it’s a practical one—will reducing them imperil public safety in some important way? The answer is sometimes that, yes, you really do need […]
Mar11th2011
“But here’s one failing, that neither Tyler nor Arnold mentions, of the vast majority of both left-wing and market-oriented economists: their apparently dogged determination not to analyze the role of war and an aggressive foreign policy in leading to the rise of the interventionist state. Robert Higgs has laid this […]
Mar10th2011
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I think there’s at least an outside chance that Josh Barro is right that the next time Democrats control both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature and hold the governorship, they won’t actually restore collective-bargaining rights to Wisconsin’s public employees. “There is no clamor among Democrats in Virginia to give collective-bargaining privileges to […]
Mar10th2011
“Not to draw an equivalence between a bad bill and a good one, but what it reminds me of is congressional Democrats after Scott Brown’s election. The early CW was that somehow Democrats “had to” back down in the face of their unpopularity. But they didn’t have to do anything. They […]
Mar10th2011
“That’s right, and George Will isn’t Michael Moore; and a liberal blog, almost by definition, is a blog written by someone who chooses not to notice that asymmetry. No need to read Marginal Revolution, Becker/Posner, Econlog, John Taylor, Greg Mankiw, Robin Hanson, Steven Landsburg, etc, etc. Nothing of interest, just move […]
Mar8th2011
The Charter School Revolution Moves To Compton
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 0 CommentsYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
A moving short video of the affect the “Parent Revolution” is having in Compton, California. I’m curious: to those who dislike charter schools and vouchers, what do YOU have to say to parents stuck in these failing public schools? Please support the Parent Revolution […]
Mar7th2011
Some have even coined the term liberaltarian, in reference to a possible political alliance of shared interests between liberals and libertarians. But the latest Koch’s - big contributors of libertarian efforts - debacle shows that the possible union is all but dead:
The underlying premise of liberaltarianism was that libertarians could emphasize their policy positions […]
Mar4th2011
“In my view, the real argument for private firearm ownership is a different one. The less able individuals are to protect themselves from crime, the more dependent they are on protection by government law enforcement. The more dependent they are on protection by government law enforcement, the more willing they will […]
